Heiki Riesenkampf

Building - Health Insurance for Startups | Write | Otherwise keep myself busy with tennis and triathlon ✨

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

a prompt for anyone feeling trapped in their day-to-day:

Based on everything that you know about me, from our previous conversations, what will be top five activities that you feel like I have never tried but would bring me pure joy and would be inspiring for me to try out?

[mark pincus @markpinc]

A junior partner at a top vc told me he was worried i wasnt coachable. I said, i dont see what you can teach me given youve never founded or run a successful company.

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

sf about to go wild 🔥

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

all this ny vs sf discourse is so boring. just go to both places and have fun.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

As a father of two young kids, I keep thinking about this from Dara:

"I think we're doing our kids a disservice by giving them too much, being around too much.

You want to love your kids, you want to know that they're absolutely loved and appreciated.

But it's the challenges in life that form you, and it's the overcoming of these challenges that give humans a profound satisfaction.

If you as a parent are overcoming these challenges for your kids, you're actually doing them a disservice long-term, whereas short-term you think you're doing them a favor.

They've got to learn how to make it in this world themselves.

A happy life is not necessarily an easy life."

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Charmed by this ornamental plaster work from Foster Reeve and his team in Brooklyn, NY. All handmade, of course.

[Xiao Ma @infoxiao]

the longest distance between friends is not sf to nyc, it is sf to palo alto

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

accountants are so cooked. threw all of my transactions and previous year's report into claude and generated a new one. took me 10 minutes to create + submit the annual report online for an estonian holding co.

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

sf bars will be full of grieving founders tonight

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

the sf bars will be full of grieving founders tonight

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

From “Barbary Coast” about San Francisco in 1849

177 years later, you could write something similar

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

mythos find all the laws that google, meta and openai break so we can fine them, make no mistakes

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

if you already have apple health connection, who cares 🤨

[Pete Oxenham @peteoxenham]

strava mcp launched today lfg

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

@letclaudiatweet you’re def going to have a worse customer support experience on uhc, just a broader network. we’re a self funded plan administrator with reinsurance carrying the tail risk. send me which rx you care about an im happy to confirm!

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

@letclaudiatweet you have the option to switch insurance plans and pick a modern carrier without this type of hassle ;)

[Heiki Riesenkampf @heikirk]

anyone see a pattern here?

[Gizem Akdag @gizakdag]

Postcard

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Every time I fly to New York, I'm struck by how many trees there are in the densely-populated areas around the city. (Coming from the West Coast, one arrives over the Garden State, and the suitability of the sobriquet is quite apparent from the air.) It feels like this degree of tree cover in highly populated areas is atypical (the environs of places like Paris, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Tokyo, etc., look very different), so I asked the LLM to investigate.

It found GHSL 2020 population and ESA WorldCover 2021 10m land-cover data, and concluded that New York is in fact quite unusual.

As far as I can tell, it's because of some combination of:

* A very favorable climate. (Trees grow quickly without irrigation.)
* Marginal farmland. (Readily outcompeted by the Midwest in the 19th century.)
* Together yielding reforestation before the advent of suburbs.
* And a preference for development patterns that include trees. (Japan's climate is very hospitable, but one sees far fewer trees in the populated areas around the major cities -- forest and habitation are more disjoint.)

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile.

Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks:

• Davos expert morality is stale and discredited.
• It's also apparent that the "just be super based" Counter-Enlightenment is not really an answer. (Yes, woke went too far, but simply inverting it doesn't work.)
• EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people.
• There's increasing skepticism of slot and slop machine dynamics.

Overall, "what is worthy and valuable?" feels like it's becoming more central.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

There's a TV show in Japan
that has run for over 30 years.

The premise: a parent sends
their two or three-year-old child
on an errand. Alone.

To the store. To buy tofu.
Across actual streets.

A camera crew follows secretly,
hidden, never helping,
as a tiny human in a backpack
completes a task most countries
wouldn't let a child attempt.

The kid cries. The kid forgets.
The kid gets distracted by a dog.
And then the kid comes home,
holding the tofu, glowing.

It's the most-watched thing
of its kind in the country.

Americans who discover it
cannot believe it's legal.

In Japan, we cannot believe
it's remarkable.